namex rome (italy) internet exchange point update
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NaMeX today
ü Established in 2001 as a consortium
ü Originally started as a voluntary based activity, eventually moved to a professional organization
ü Nautilus ü Mediterranean ü eXchange Point ü An IXP in the middle of
the Mediterranean basin
NaMeX
ü Consortium is supported by members’ financial contributions
ü A public price list for all members (no individual agreements)
ü Yearly fees are set by members’ general meeting, upon proposal from board of directors
ü CINECA guarantees prices that cover its own costs
ü NaMeX is held by its members ü Financial contributions are fully employed in
providing professional services back to members
NaMeX today
ü An infrastucture aimed at providing its (now 53) members with new opportunities:
ü Carrier housing services: requested by network operators in order to establish a point of presence and access private interconnections and IP transit at competitive prices
ü Peering services for the exchange of IP traffic with a large number of ISPs
ü Other services: ü SPC-QXN (PA dedicated exchange network), FUB (Internet quality
monitoring) ü Over-the-top infrastructures ü Remote connection to AMS-IX ü Remote hands
Members
ü Over-the-top (i.e.: Google, Akamai)
ü Content providers (Aruba, Seeweb, CloudItalia)
ü Carriers (Level 3, Sparkle, Cogent, WIS)
ü ISPs
ü WISPs
ü Public institutions (FUB, SPC-QXN)
Afferenti
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
19 23 25 30 32 44 50 51 54
Financials
ü Increasing budget (+17%)
ü Income from peering
services is decreasing
ü Income from carrier housing services is increasing
Bilancio
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
200 KEuro
300 Keuro
400 KEuro
440 KEuro
440 KEuro
580 KEuro
720 KEuro
850
KEuro
900 KEuro
Content Providers
ü Datacenter provides housing space to major international content providers:
ü AKAMAI ü Google
ü Content providers account for 30% of ISPs traffic today
ü Cache servers bring content close to end users
National strategies
ü Redundancy point for national traffic:
ü ISPs with a national extent and a point of presence in one of the IXPs in northern Italy are showing a growing interest in connecting to NAMEX, in order to:
ü Provide a disaster recovery site (international fiber paths do not pass through Milan and Turin)
ü Load balance their backbone traffic
ü Aggregate traffic from center and southern Italy locally
International strategies
ü Landing stations project: ü Italy as a gateway to Europe ü Help network operators from
Mediterranean countries and operators being carried over sea cables, to establish their network presence in Italy
ü AMS-IX Partnership
ü Virtual IXP port remotization ü 9 connected members
ü Common strategies towards international carriers
ü Try&Buy campaign